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Our Employment, Industrial Relations & Safety services

Our team provides a broad range of workplace relations and human resource management services including representation before the courts in employment, industrial relations, EEO claims, and workplace investigations. We also handle WHS strategy and risk minimisation including defending safety prosecutions.

Our Employment, IR & Safety team prepare responses to complaints and claims and provide representation in relevant jurisdictions.  We develop up-to-date and effective affirmative action policies for businesses of all sizes.

We represent clients in all Federal and State jurisdictions on a range of workplace disputes, including unfair and unlawful dismissal, adverse action, underpayment and breach of award claims and discrimination based claims.

Our team draft employment contracts and enterprise agreements.  We also develop employment policies, legislative compliant practice and procedure manuals.  We advise on strategies for unionised workplaces including right of entry, industrial action, bargaining representatives, ballots and BOOT test review.

We can assist with compliance obligations, advise on all workplace health and safety matters, including investigations and prosecutions.  We are highly skilled in major incident investigation response from assisting clients with gathering evidence for regulators and compulsory interviews to strategic defence of major prosecutions.

Our team negotiate and draft employment contracts, restrictive covenants, confidentiality agreements, remuneration packages, settlements, return to work arrangements and termination of employment processes.  We advise on performance reviews, bonuses, equity arrangements and copyright in the workplace.  We are also highly skilled in executive termination strategies and mutual exits.

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After discussing an issue with Andreas about FWC, Bruno and Genevieve have put me at ease with their approach and strategy to close out the FWC resolution. I have found Bruno and Genevieve to be very professional, organised, structured, and took on board everything I have said. They approached this case with candor. They have understood the pressure on me and the impact on my industry standing and company position across industries, as well as the implication of this case being classed as a case study should it have progressed beyond the reconciliation meeting.

Bruno’s level of sophistication and client service were outstanding.

Bruno Di Girolami can take into account business needs and assist in devising a solution that mitigates risk while ensuring we can still achieve our business objectives.

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Lavan is based in Perth, Western Australia, with an inherent market knowledge and trusted relationships within our community.

We value collaborative relationships and are approachable and available when you need us.

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